RIVERSIDE – California Baptist University women's basketball began the second half of the conference season with a complete victory, doing everything well against New Mexico State on their way to a 92-64 win in the CBU Events Center. The victory puts the Lancers back in the win column while holding a 16-4 record on the season with a 7-2 tally in the Western Athletic Conference standings.
Even though they handled the Aggies convincingly, the Lancers are still tied for second place in league standings with Grand Canyon, who kept pace by beating Seattle U in Seattle, 64-59.
Freshman
Trinity San Antonio had a monster game in her first showdown with the Aggies, dropping a game-high 20 points on 7-8 shooting while doing a little bit of everything with four assists, three rebounds, two steals, and a blocked shot. This is San Antonio's second 20-point effort; the first came in the conference opener against Chicago State when she set her career-scoring mark with 24 points.
Caitlyn Harper wasn't far behind San Antonio, scoring 18 points and stuffing two Aggie shots.
Sydney Palma recorded her third straight double-digit scoring game with 11 points, nine of which came in the second quarter when she got hot and went 3-3 from beyond the arc.
Britney Thomas saw her first action since early January, scoring 11 points on 5-5 shooting and grabbing five rebounds in just eight minutes of action.
The Lancers never trailed during the game, getting off to a scorching start, outscoring NM State 26-11 in the first quarter and 25-9 in the second. The Lancers used unanswered scoring streaks of 13 points in the first period, and 14 points in the second, to build a cushion the Aggies would never challenge. At its peak, CBU led by as much as 38 in the final seconds of the third quarter.
UP NEXT
Grand Canyon comes to town on Saturday afternoon for a 1 pm tip-off at the CBU Events Center. The Lopes will no doubt be looking for payback after CBU went 3-0 against them last season, earning the outright regular-season title in the process when CBU won the second game of the back-to-back regular-season series, 79-64.
